Sen. Warnock: ‘I Stand on the Shoulders of the Likes of the Reverend Jesse Jackson’

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WARNOCK: “He showed that the Democratic Party, the ways in which it‘s winner-take-all system, was disenfranchising black voters and others who could broaden our imagination of who could sit in these seats. I‘m sitting here as a United States senator from Georgia. And while I had to work hard to get here, I stand on the shoulders of the likes of the Reverend Jesse Jackson. His was a bold move. And if I might say, Abby, I‘m finishing up your book, you did an amazing job telling that story and helping people to see the ways in which the work that he did and the things he accomplished were not inevitable. They were quite improbable. But he stood up also to black elites who had a limited vision of what a black candidate could do. And all of us are better because of it.”